Health insurance gap after a layoff after 18 years as a delivery driver

I have 18 weeks left on my current insurance and I am comparing options. I would rather hear the honest version than the polite one. I do not want a gap in coverage. What did you choose and how was the process?

A free navigator at a community health centre walked me through my options. It took an hour and saved me a lot of guessing.

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 13 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.